Because most people have their own idea of what is morally right in the world, and they want to cling onto that regardless of what other perspectives may exist. Both sides do this.
Also, in some cases, speaking the truth about something leads to them losing their jobs or livelihoods.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” - Upton Sinclair
There is no possible universe where this LLM AI technology was not going to be turned into a money-making venture.
If it wasn't OpenAI, it would have been Google doing it, or maybe some other startup. This kind of tech has too much potential and wow-ing ability to just stay in a research lab forever and ever.
Honestly, having OpenAI under Microsoft was probably the best deal we can get on the matter. At least they had the mission of not going full throttle from the jump. Microsoft as of late also isn't really a meddler in business practices as the other giants. Maybe that changes now that OpenAI has schism-ed itself out of relevance, but considering the other ways this could have gone, we should be happy that the AI boom we have now is the reality we live in.
And by the way, the whole "They are hiding AGI" thing is just a complete lie. The way LLM's tun now, there is simply no way they can ever become AGI, and I doubt they've somehow created a brand new type of AI system in less than a year.
No duh, because not a single country has made any real attempt to lower their citizens' emissions.
It will take sacrifice from all of us to stop warming.
Forget 1.5°C, honestly, forget 2°C as well, keeping it under 3°C is likely the best that we can hope for right now. You're needing to throw out our gas-based car infrastructure, reduce our reliance on jets as much as possible, lower not just meat consumption but also almonds/alfalfa/etc., and that is just to get started.
Really, I don't see the average voter letting that happen. What's going to happen is eventually, sometime 30-40 years from now, a heat wave is gonna thrash the Middle East, consistent 130°F days for a solid month, 100,000 people dead, and the very next year planes will be in the air, making clouds to block the sun.
We are not ready to give up the things that the developed world will have to give up to truly back away from this coming apocalypse.
As long as men are going to be the ones having to do the grunt work, having to be the one to bring in the money and do the dangerous jobs, this will never change.
Unfortunately, most people don't want that to change.
Because someone decided it was such a funny idea to use these places to launch missiles at their enemies.
Fucking godawful people Hamas are, ruining the lives of 2 million people and assuring untold suffering for probably generations. The sooner those fucks are gone, the better.
Lemmy didn't reach critical mass. The honeymoon period is over, and now people like you are realizing how barren it really is, especially if you are not a techie.
The only reversal is if Reddit does something bad again to convince people to leave and give this place another shot in the arm. Although, seeing how Musk is all but sawing off Twitter's arms and legs and people aren't moving despite Bluesky/Threads being around.... well...... that's not a good sign for places like this.
You should try to fight the tsunami as best you can, but... people always go where the other people already are. Any website that people go for to see user-generated content has to deal with this spiraling problem.
I don't have any trust whatsoever for any company, or the government, to be the decider of what counts as "mis/disinformation".
Sometimes there are easy layups, like "the Holocaust did not happen" and "Vaccines have 5G chips inside them" which are obviously just wrong and I think most of us would agree not to have...
But what about "The Holocaust was overblown and the jews should stop whining about it"? I and probably 99% of people would say that's a stupid opinion, but is that "misinformation"? Should a company be allowed to ban you for saying it?
How about things like the 13/52 statistic? Should that be removed? What about "42% of all transgenders commit suicide"? That's used to attack that group a lot, should that be banned as well?
And, to be honest with you, the Democratic Party is absolutely obsessed with using clinical terms like those mentioned to stifle all discussion and act like they are the only voice on the issue you're allowed to believe. Republicans freak out about this for good reason.
It's always the Democratic side that gets conservative opinions that they think are bad (whether lies or otherwise), boot them off the platform, and then decide to trample all over their new platforms and get them killed off too. It's never just "pRiVaTe CoMpAnY tHeY cAn dO WhAt ThEy WaNt MaKe YoUr oWn WeBsiTE", it's "you are not allowed to have a place to speak this idea that I think is bad for society anywhere on the internet". I really, really do not want to embolden that sect more than they already are.
This would be scary except for the part where I think many of these young activists would honestly rather have their whole search history read in court than vote for Trump.
If it's those two guys again, the election will go exactly the same way as last time, because 99.9% of Americans will have already decided before the first presidental debate even happens.
I know I've already decided that I'm not gonna bother come 2024 if those two are back. But I'm more apathetic about politics than the average Tlaib listener. They will almost certainly fall in line the instant the primaries are clinched.
Took long enough. What the hell was the holdup?
Wow, finally, a doll for me!
Redistricting should be done by mathematics, because clearly people can't be trusted for it.
I myself can't get into any of those shorts style of content. 90% has some trash pop music in the background, which I really dislike. But, yeah, it's a thing now. Thanks TikTok (and Vine before them, can't completely let the memories of Vine die off)
May I suggest some long-form content to get you to not hit the recommended so much, like perhaps this documentary on Nortel? (watched both 90-minute videos without even thinking about stopping, despite never having heard of Nortel before they came out)